River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-11-17

HIS education was limited to what he
acquired in pursuing his trade OF print
err He married his wife at Austin
in 1863 In 1870 he was elected secre-
tary OF the Texas Senate, and the following
year was appointed a deputy United States
Internal Revenue Collector. He held this Of
fee until he came to Chicago in 1873. when he
resumed his trade as a cOmpostOr on the
Times In 1876, he joined the Socialists. Dur
ng the labor troubles OF the following year, he
vas arrested by the chief Of police for q
speech he had made 10 20,0u0 laboring
men at the Market square, but was released
the same night. For three years he filed the
position of president OF the Trades and Labor
Association. He was nominated for alderman
three times, for Congress twice, and once each
for sheriff and G unity clerk. At the National
convention or the SOcialisuc-Labor party, held
at Allegheny, Pa, IN 1872 he was nominated as
the candidate for President OF the United
States, but the age requirement, il nothing
else, would have prevented his election to that
Office tie continued his agitations during all
the years interYen ng between that time and
May {, 1886. st the Haymarket meeting on
that fatal night be addressed the assemblage,
but when the bomb was ID Gown disappeared
and was not seen in the city gain until the day
Spies, Fieiden, Fischer, LiEgg Engel, Schwab
and Neeb5 appeared before the court for ar
Faignment, when, having b"en indicted with the
others, he voluntarily appeared before the judge,
and with his comrades entered plea Of not
guilty.
The case Of the condemned Anarchists in the
Supreme Court OF Illinois is ven in book
which forms the advance sheets OF volume
CXXII. OF the Illinois Reports. This valuable
contribution has been prepared oy Hon.
Norman L. Freeman. OF Springfield, official re-
porter OF the Illinois supreme Court, and bears
date OF November 3, 1851 Mr. Freeman has
collected in convenient shape and style mass Of
documentary evidence bearing upon the case o.
the Anarchists such as their utrerances, cover
ing period Of from pne % two years previous
to the Hayularket wholesale hOmicide- These
views and oplnions OF the condemned men VIII
be OF unusual interest at this time, as showing
their op Mons long and just before the Hay
market trouble their ALLEGED grievances, and
the means they advocated as best suited and
most likely to lead TO the redressinr Of their
re al Or faacied wrongs. In every instance the
quotations given from Mr. Freeman 5 work OF
81 pages are here reproduced exactly as Mr..
Freeman prints them. The extracts are as
follows:
Schwab in a speech at a gathering OF work
ing-men at Mueller's Han IN the North p vision,
IN June 1855, made the following remark tpub-
lished in the ArbsitsT ZsstHn0l. because we
know that the ruling class win never make any
cOnces siols, there -e we have. once for al,
severed our come StiOn with IL, ana made al
preparations for . revolution rs force
On February IS, 1eSA SchWah. al the TWelfta
Street Turner Han, IN regard TO the London
riBts made use Of the following. I'VE greet
the London events as the announcement OF the
near approach OF the social revolution"
AT q mass-meetng on the lake mont April
q, 1876. week before the Haymarkst meet ne,
Schwab said: . livery where police and muir
cerers are employed 70 grind down working
men For every working man who has died
through the pistol 81 QepufY sheriff let zen OF
these eNecatloners fall.
August SPECS. at a meeting held October II,
iSSs, n Twelfth Street Turner Hall. introduced
q series Of resolutions in regard to the eight
hour movement to be inaugurated May !, 1856,
which contained the following:
WHEREAS, II Is expected that the class Of